In my undergraduate days, I had delusion fantasies of becoming a medieval European historian and wasted a lot of time and money moving in that direction. One of the reasons why this was and remains a very difficult career path is that there are few college teaching positions available in the humanities.
But it would appear that if you can land one, you're set for life with a salary in excess of a billion dollars.
I think that the original (and since corrected) job posting is for this one at Sarah Lawrence College, which has a salary of $10,500 to $14,000, not $1,050,014,000. We humanities people struggle with math sometimes.
-via Matthew Thiessen, who quips "Announcing my immediate shift toward research and teaching on Medieval Literature.
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